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leob

It's interesting, but it really makes me wonder if they aren't adding too much exotic "baggage" to the HTML and CSS standards.

I mean, should something like this really be part of the HTML "core"? I'm afraid that web APIs (HTML, CSS and so on) might get excessively bloated at some point - don't forget that browser vendors have to implement all of this stuff whether people use it or not. At some point your web browser might become bigger and heavier than the OS you're running it on.

It would have my preference if web components or other generic standards would be promoted and implemented, so that people can just build this kind of stuff (like an 'output' element) themselves, instead of adding an endless number of "ad hoc" features (which almost nobody uses) to the standard.

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Chris Bongers

Yeah I think at one point they tried to steer away from this by having people come up with their own components like but now they kind of put half of those in the HTML spec.

I agree might get bloated one day